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The emergency department staff at Milford Regional Medical Center typically prepares for a shift including patients seeking care for car accidents, heart attacks, or the rare mass casualty incident. No staff members had experienced a pandemic.

Here in Massachusetts at least 900,000 individuals serve as healthcare’s front line before the front line, and their numbers are growing in this pandemic. Across the U.S., the total is at least 53 million. 

Business is no longer as usual and while the optimists among us will seize the day, in the present moment, life is different right now, including work life.

Over the course of the last year and a half, the medical and recreational cannabis retailers have grown into two very different yet overlapping businesses, largely coexisting and occasionally competing.

A trio of researchers at UMass Medical School in Worcester are attacking the coronavirus pandemic from three different angles, as part of a $17-million Massachusetts effort to help the world combat the disease which has killed more than 400,000 people globally.

In a flash this spring, Reliant Medical Group in Worcester was suddenly using video and phone technology to have patients meet with health providers for about a quarter of the visits that used to take place in person.

Southborough’s RxAdvance is a smaller player in an industry dominated by giants like CVS’ Caremark or Express Scripts.

CEO Grace Elton talked with WBJ in advance of Tower Hill Botanic Garden's June 8 reopening.

Massachusetts has reached the second phase of Gov. Charlie Baker’s economic reopening plan, where it is once again acceptable for restaurants to open their dining rooms and for hotels to accept guests.

The challenges we face as a nation due to the coronavirus pandemic have left no one untouched....